Enterprise Architect is required by a well-established and highly successful organisation.
Purpose and Impact:
* To work with business and technology teams to drive the right strategic technology decisions for the organisation, ensuring their use of technology is proportionate and fit for purpose.
* To help form the IT Roadmap as part of the Strategy & Architecture team, aligning the technology strategy to business strategy in consultation with service owners.
* To create models of business architecture, data architecture, and information systems architecture wherever necessary to support Enterprise Architecture & technology goals.
* To ensure proper governance of new technology introduced into the estate and the application of best practices to architectural decisions.
Accountable to: The role is accountable to the Head of IT Strategy & Architecture.
Responsibilities:
* Consult with stakeholders in the business, including up to Director level, to understand business roadmaps and collaborate with the Architecture team on aligning the IT roadmap with those business roadmaps.
* Produce Enterprise Architecture artefacts as required to model/document an area of the business and the systems that support it (e.g., Business Capability maps, Data models, Systems diagrams).
* Take a broad, organisation-wide view of technology and business needs, balancing the concerns of disparate stakeholders and guiding strategic decisions around technology.
* Contribute to and help maintain the Enterprise repository of information (e.g., systems landscape maps, enterprise data models, enterprise applications catalogue).
* Collaborate with other Architects to help Enterprise Architecture and Solutions Architecture practices work seamlessly together.
* Ensure that Solution Architects have sufficient information and support, including briefings, handovers, guidance, and check-ins, to support the end-to-end Architectural lifecycle.
* Contribute to and help enforce governance, aiding in the production of Architecture Principles, Policies & Rules/Standards.
* Help foster an open, positive culture within the wider technology department, working with all IT colleagues to explore new ideas and ways of working.
* Mentor and help grow junior Architects within the team.
* Maximise personal productivity, minimise duplication and errors, and manage information efficiently and securely to reduce risk through effective use of Office 365 and internal IT systems and applications.
A great opportunity to make a real impact and shape the way Enterprise Architecture is delivered across the organisation.
Basic Salary: £63-66,500
Location: Based in Northampton
Working Arrangement: Hybrid working with 2 days per week in the office.
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